Privacy & Compliance Specialist (8 Month Contract)

McKesson•Mississauga, ON

37d•Hybrid

About The Position

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you. Please note: This is a contract for an 8 month term. Work Arrangement: This is a hybrid position requiring candidates to work on-site at least 2 days per week at our designated office location. The remaining days may be worked remotely, subject to team and business needs. Job Summary: This position reports into the VP, Compliance & Ethics. The Privacy and Compliance Specialist will be responsible across McKesson Canada’s Business Units, investigating privacy incidents, creating, implementing and directing McKesson Canada’s compliance and privacy quality management activities, overseeing the implementation of the various privacy & compliance corporate policies and business processes based on established procedures, relevant regulations and industry guidelines.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
2+ years’ experience in Quality, Privacy, and/or Compliance.
Demonstrate a general knowledge of applicable privacy laws and regulations.
Strong time management and prioritization skills with a demonstrated ability to execute against multiple projects and excel in a fast-paced work environment.
Excellent analytic and organizational skills.
Strong writing skills and ability to communicate verbally.
Ability to prepare and deliver training sessions.
Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Ability to work with all levels within the organization, including cross-departmental teams and leadership.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience with in a healthcare environment is an asset.
CIPP/C, PMP certifications an asset.
Bilingual (French/English) an asset.

Responsibilities

Investigate privacy incidents, establish root causes and propose remediation.
Track and trend privacy incidents reported.
Assist in the development and implementation of the designated business units’ privacy procedures and practices in coordination with the Privacy and Compliance Team, quality departments, IT security and the legal department.
Conduct compliance and privacy assessments to assess the management of personal information across the designated business units and assists in the development and implementation of the designated business units’ action plans for privacy compliance.
Conduct ongoing compliance and privacy monitoring activities across designated business units.
Ensure privacy requirements are met across all designated business units by providing appropriate consent forms, access to information forms, employee privacy pledges, privacy clauses, privacy agreements and other documents.
Identify the designated business units’ compliance and privacy risks, detecting shortcomings and bringing to the attention of Sr. Manager, Privacy and Compliance.
Provide, develop, source and coordinate ongoing regulatory and business processes, compliance and privacy presentations, and related training.
Promote activities to foster privacy awareness within the designated business units.
Oversee delivery of compliance and privacy training for staff.
Remain up to date with new ideas, concepts, guidelines and regulations with regard to all compliance and privacy topics.
Assume the lead compliance and privacy role within the designated business units and interact with the business unit privacy leaders and other quality and process personnel across those business units to ensure consistency.
Provide direction and work closely with the Sr. Manager, Privacy and Compliance to ensure that all colleagues understand the importance of privacy and compliance, and that they adopt the positive attitude required to achieve the goals of the privacy program willingly.
Set and maintain internal privacy standards that are in line with customer deliverables.
Review, update, and design Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and business processes system to ensure compliance with applicable privacy laws and industry standards.
Be present to support or facilitate regulatory or customer inspections in all areas of business across the designated business units.